Posts tagged…Ip
Counterfeiting data is phoney
Thu, Apr 15 2010Ottawa University Professor of Law, Michael Geist, points to a new U.S. Government Accounting Office report that concludes the U.S. government—and they might add, other governments negotiating the poisonous ACTA "anti-counterfeiting" treaty —have been inventing their estimates of losses from global counterfeiting.
"Three commonly cited estimates of U.S. industry losses due to counterfeiting have…
Read more…Life in rural China
Thu, Apr 16 2009
This is the most fascinating and engaging writing I've seen on the web in a long time.
It's a translation of several blog posts by a Shanghai resident, Xiao Sanliang, who returned home to his village for the Spring Festival (January 26 this year).
"Lu Xun said: ‘Dig out your heart, and know its taste.’ This is what I see in my village. And it makes me sigh."
Extract from the China Labor…
Summary of the copyright trade agreement
Wed, Apr 08 2009The participants in the proposed Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)—one of the few plurilateral (non-regional) trade agreements ever negotiated outside the multilateral trade framework of GATT and WTO—have lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding their negotiations just a little by publishing a "Summary of key elements under discussion".
Although apparently intended to calm civil-liberties…
A ‘secret’ copyright treaty
Thu, Jun 05 2008In February this year, the Australian government joined negotiations with a number of other developed economies on a proposed ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). The "negotiations"—if that's what they are, they seem more like a drafting convention—are being conducted behind closed doors in Geneva. There has been little information from the Australian government on the benefits for…